Directed by:
Robert BressonScreenplay:
Robert BressonCinematography:
Léonce-Henri BurelCast:
François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod, Roger Planchon, Jacques Ertaud, Jean Paul Delhumeau, Roger Treherne (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
Based on the memoir by Andre Devigny, a member of the French Resistance imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Gestapo during the German occupation, Bresson transforms Devigny's daring escape into an ascetic film of documentary detail. Kept in a tiny stone cell with a high window and a thick wooden door, the prisoner makes himself intimate with his world--every surface of his room, every sound reverberating through the hall, and every detail of the prison's layout that he can absorb in brief sojourns from his cell. Bresson magnifies every detail with insistent close-ups and detailed examinations of every step of Fontaine's plan, from constructing and hiding ropes and hooks to painstakingly carving out an exit in the heavy cell door, and provides a sort of Greek chorus of fellow prisoners. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
François Leterrier
France
Best movies:
A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth (1956)
Stavisky (1974)
Charles Le Clainche
Best movies:
Maurice Beerblock
Belgium
Best movies:
Roland Monod
Best movies:
Two Men in Town (1973)
A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth (1956)
L'Amour nu (1981)
Roger Planchon
France
Best movies:
A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth (1956)
I... For Icarus (1979)
Camille Claudel (1988)
Jacques Ertaud
France
Best movies:
Jean Paul Delhumeau
Best movies:
Roger Treherne
Best movies:
Jean Philippe Delamarre
Best movies:
César Gattegno
France
Best movies:
A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth (1956)
Pickpocket (1959)
Les Cœurs brûlés (1992) (series)